The United States entered World War I when Congress declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. This postmark honors that event.

We also highlight a well-received cartoon caption contest, and the new surge in modern U.S. stamps within the marketplace.

The ongoing financial woes of the USPS can be traced to congressional raids going back almost three decades. Here are three examples.

The ragtime legend Scott Joplin is honored on the latest postmark from the St. Louis Stamp Expo.

A new variety of the 10¢ Red Pears definitive stamp was issued March 23 with a first-day ceremony at the March Party stamp show in Cleveland, Ohio.

The price cap has proven not to be enough to keep the nation’s mail system from running huge deficits, the USPS said in a March 20 filing with the PRC.

Earhart was honored by the United States Post Office Department in 1963 on an 8¢ airmail stamp, which was issued on her birthday.

Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan says this new test program, which should be nationwide later this year, “puts the power of mail onto digital channels.”

Also this week, more counterfeit U.S. stamps surfaced, and we remembered former postmaster general Benjamin Franklin Bailar.

The way U.S. postal inspectors are telling it, Khalid M. Hussain, the longtime manager of the SFS center, ran a rogue operation for years.

Bailar laid out his vision for the Postal Service’s future in a March 8, 1976, speech to the Economic Club of Detroit.

"He said his departure has nothing to do with outrage over his salary, but rather because he has finished the job he set out to do."

Mr. Bailar served as the 61st postmaster general for the USPS and enjoyed collecting U.S. stamps depicting his namesake, Benjamin Franklin.

The proposed rules, if adopted, could adversely affect product sales, including computer-generated stamps, both firms said in the Federal Register.

Also this week, a counterfeit 2015 Love stamp was discovered, and we profiled a U.S. Official stamp that is easily misidentified.

Bill McAllister also reports on Postmaster General Megan Brennan's desire to end the price cap that keeps postage rate increases tied to inflation.

“I didn’t get everything I wanted,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz said. But he described the bill as one that would allow the USPS to move away from the red ink.

The ruling came came almost seven years after the government joined a lawsuit filed by Floyd Landis, Armstrong's former teammate.

The world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CVN-65), was officially decommissioned Feb. 3.

No one in Washington disputes that the first quarter of the Postal Service’s fiscal year is its most profitable.